About me
- Plant Ecophysiologist
- climate change
- physiology
- evolution
- Shepherd Research:
- aquaponics
- urban tree ecology
- ?????


About me
- Plant Ecophysiologist
- climate change
- physiology
- evolution
- Shepherd Research:
- aquaponics
- urban tree ecology
- ?????

This semester we will practice being a modern ecologist

This semester we will ….
- Immerse ourselves in weekly ecological themes
- lecture
- journal club
- quantitative reasoning
- Run ecological experiments
- SOLVE a major ecological issue!
- Practice communicating science

What is ecology (textbook)?

Ecology has a few big themes

- Relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
- living and non-living components
- (1) Distribution and abundance of organisms
- (2) Interactions among organisms
- (3) Transformation and flux of energy and matter
Are humans a part of ecology?

Ecology questions span many scales, including time


Ecologist try to explain, understand and predict


What is the central need for ecology?

Class Warning: We will be moving up Bloom’s ladder

For Journal Club this week….
- Read “100 articles every ecologist should read”
- article and cheat sheet on Brightspace
- Take specific notes
- What ecological themes are common?
- Do you feel any themes are missing?
- Is there a take home message?
- Is there anything you don’t understand?
- Complete and submit your 3-2-1 on Brightspace
- Pay attention to little details
- Are there any patterns you see?
- Do you detect any issues?

Journal Club warning…
- If there is one thing that I know in life it is plants !
- If there are two things that I know, the second is if you have read the paper.
- It is obvious to me when you are not prepared for the readings.
- I can easily distinguish between misunderstanding and poor preparation!
- I expect you to have a copy of the paper and notes in class
- I take this very seriously and you will NOT do well in this class if you do not participate
- come to class prepared to speak!

Introducing the ‘Pot of Doom’
- At the start of Journal Club one name will be drawn
- Student will be responsible for 2 things:
- 1 minute brief on what the paper addresses (theme, species, issue, etc.)
- Definition or explanation of a science word or concept from the paper you did not know (so you had to look it up)
